Chapter 50: Stone Altars and Reliefs
The area of the stone chamber is about 20 square meters, and the interior furnishings are very simple.
There is only a stone bed made of the fur of some kind of animal, and the stone bed is bordered by two metal pickaxes used to cut the stone wall.
Su Nian and Ji Yun didn't stop here, and continued along the tunnel.
Passing through the tunnel, there is another stone chamber, and the furnishings inside are basically similar to the stone chamber in front of it.
There is a tunnel to the left and right of this stone chamber that connects to other areas.
After passing through several stone chambers one after another with curiosity, Su Nian found that this seemed to be an area inhabited by slaves, each stone chamber was connected to each other, like a beehive, and each stone chamber was placed with several metal pickaxes used for excavation, and a hole stone was inlaid on the wall.
The whole area was like a labyrinth, and it took Su Nian for a while to walk out of the stone chamber area.
The view in front of you suddenly opens up to a spacious underground hall, and the entire rock wall of the hall is embedded with dong ming stones, which at first glance looks like a starry sky, bringing a strong visual shock.
In the center of the hall, there are eight stone sculptures more than 10 meters high, which come to life under the light of the Dong Ming stone.
They guard the stone altar in the center, like guards who never decay.
Looking around the hall, Ji Yun couldn't help but sigh:
"If these holes can be exchanged for embers, we will make a lot of money."
"Stop daydreaming, let's go and see."
Walking through the towering stone statues and standing in front of the stone altar in the center of the hall, Su Nian found that a rusty chain hung from each statue, and the ends of the eight chains converged at the stone altar in the center, where the skeleton of a giant beast lay here.
The body of this giant beast is extremely huge, lying on the ground is also seven or eight meters high, the bones are thick, the skull is unusually wide, the deep eye sockets are like the abyssal mouths of two black holes, the vertebrae on the spine are closely connected, and a bone spur protrudes in the center of each section, which looks very hideous and domineering.
The behemoth's ribs were dented inward, and they were covered with dense cracks, one of which had fallen to the stone altar.
Eight chains are locked around the neck, limbs, and tail of the beast, and two of them are tied to the front with two chains each, so that even if the beast dies, it is still firmly locked to the bones.
Although the giant beast was dead, Su Nian could imagine its strength during his lifetime.
Walk through the ribs of the giant beast to the circular stone altar, and look down at the surface of the stone altar carved with three exquisite reliefs.
The first depicts a figure sitting at the top of a pyramid and descending the stairs, with countless figures worshipping him.
But Su Nian noticed a detail in the pattern, in which a pitch-black tentacle passed through the thick clouds above the pyramid, and the seated figure looked up at the sky, spreading his hands, as if praying for something.
This pitch-black tentacle instantly reminded him of the mysterious tentacle that was destroying the Gu Clan.
It is almost certain that this tentacle has an inevitable connection to the decaying world.
He speculated that the tentacles were like feeders for the decaying world, constantly devouring the small worlds (planets) in the universe into their bodies, making them into new scenes of the decaying world.
Obviously, the Tooth Treasure Scene he was in now had experienced a similar scene.
When the pitch-black tentacles appeared, the world under his feet also collapsed like a Gu star, and the figure standing at the top of the pyramid seemed to pray for the calamity to leave.
The eye turns to the second pattern, which depicts a completely different scene.
The figure shown in the first image continues to sit at the top of the pyramid, and below him are countless figures at work, while a dense pit appears in the ground, as if digging an underground tunnel.
Underneath the tunnel are stone altars that seal treasures.
What this pattern wants to express, combined with the previous pattern, is not difficult to guess.
Obviously, it was impossible to prevent the catastrophe from coming, and the rulers no longer resisted and chose to flee.
And the direction he chose to avoid the disaster was underground.
So the underground hall where he is now is a refuge created by the ruler to escape the calamity.
Before leading his people into the dungeon, he sent all the wealth into the ground, and each stone altar represented a door to seal the wealth.
The third relief depicts the ruler standing on top of a huge crater, beneath which is the sound of countless wails and weepings, many of whose bodies have been torn apart by some unknown force, and monstrous monsters breaking free from them.
Portions of this text have been erased by the beast's claws, and the information cannot be dissected.
Underneath the text, there is a blood-colored broken dagger mark carved into it.
According to the analysis, this dagger is referred to as the "Cursed Dagger" and is a spell that can curse the target from a distance.
However, the specific use of this is not described in the analysis information.
After reading the content of the relief, Su Nian had a clearer understanding of the situation in the underground palace.
The relief depicts the fate of a race living in the small world before the collapse of the small world, and the ruler in their eyes knows that he cannot resist the invasion of the corrupt world, completely abandons the surface world, chooses to build a dungeon to survive, and transfers all the people and wealth to the underground.
The second relief depicts a number of stone altars, the underneath of which are sealed with the ruler's treasures.
As for the third relief, it records that with limited underground resources, it is no longer possible to feed a large number of people, and the ruler used some despicable means to kill the tribesmen in large numbers and make them into monsters to continue to protect themselves and their treasures.
Turning his head to look at the beast overhead.
This chain-bound beast is clearly one of the powers that guards the treasure.
It is chained to the top of the stone altar, and any figure who wants to claim the treasure will need to step over the challenge of the behemoth.
But the beast could not resist the corrosion of time, and now only the massive skeleton continues to stand on the stone altar.
After reading the content of the relief painting, Su Nian had a clearer understanding of the analysis ability of Purgatory City.
He understood why the scene beneath his feet was named "Tooth Treasure" by Purgatory City.
This is obviously the name that Purgatory City automatically takes after scanning the scene, through the analysis of the information obtained, and after grabbing the elements.
It's like AI taking a name, giving a feature and automatically synthesizing it.
The tooth here obviously refers to the ruler depicted in the relief.
The entire dungeon is both a sanctuary for Ya Jue and a treasure trove for his life's wealth.
"Brother Nian, if I'm not mistaken, one of the treasure vaults referred to in the side quest is under the stone altar."
Ji Yun on the side looked at the relief and gave his own conjecture.
"Heroes see the same thing."